From yé-yé to yee-ha: Iconic French singer Sylvie Vartan embraces country and western

her career has spanned more than 50 years and she's sold more than 40 million albums. We speak to Sylvie Vartan about the secret to her long-running success as she releases her new album, "Sylvie in Nashville".

British '60s baroque folk artist Nick Garrie playing with Jacco Gardner at Baby's All Right tonight, Joe's Pub on Sunday

His take on baroque psych-pop is joined by an actual '60s baroque ... after they heard some demo tracks that impressed them tremendously. Eddie Vartan (Sylvie Vartan's brother, and an important representative of the French rock scene) is put in charge ...

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The real father of Festivus: Before Frank Costanza there was Daniel O'Keefe, who created the beloved 'Seinfeld' holiday

TV spoke with Dan O'Keefe Jr. about his father ... and musical selections that ranged from opera and '60s French pop star Sylvie Vartan to recordings of the O'Keefe boys at school pageants and something Dan O'Keefe describes as sounding like an Italian ...

“I’m filming a TV show because I’m in the middle of releasing a book ... Smet comes from a line of showbiz royalty — her grandparents are Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan. “They have advised me to try and surround myself with good people ...

Cara Delevingne Terrified? She Fills Us In Backstage At Fendi & More | Best Videos

Although a seasoned pro by now, Cara Delevingne still gets the butterflies when walking ... She tells us, "Actresses like Brigitte Bardot, Julie Christie and Sylvie Vartan's songs etc inspired the collection. As you can see, the garments are all A-line."

SINGER-SONGWRITER Charli XCX, 22, is sitting on a dressing room chair in the ... “Especially yé-yé pop from France, like Brigitte Bardot and Sylvie Vartan.” But thanks to help from producers including Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and Vampire …

At 86, with three Oscars and eight Grammy awards under his belt, Burt Bacharach is entitled to take it easy ... It's You," as did The Carpenters, Sylvie Vartan, Elvis Costello, Ace Frehley, Chrissie Hynde and the disco star Loleatta Holloway.)

When the songs weren’t sexually charged jokes, they were melodramatic pop ballads about youth, from Chantal Goya’s unpredictable heartache to Sylvie Vartan’s simple dance-driven desires. And then there was Françoise Hardy. She wasn’t quite …

This book includes the famous Yé-Yé practitioners Sylvie Vartan, France Gall, Françoise Hardy, Chantal Goya, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin and dozens of others, including perverse Serge Gainsbourg. Yé-Yé had secondary explosions in the 1970s and …